Kristi Toliver and her Maryland teammates did not lose their late-season groove in the two weeks between their Atlantic Coast Conference title and the start of the NCAA tournament. Toliver shot 11-for-14 to finish with 27 points in 26 minutes Sunday as the No.1-seeded Terps beat 16-seed Dartmouth 82-53 in the opening round in front of 10,847 fans on their home court. Maryland (29-4) advances to Tuesday's second round at the Comcast Center against Utah, a 60-30 winner against Villanova.

Utah took care of the first and easier part of their two-fold mission at the University of Maryland's home court of Comcast Center. The No.9-seeded Utes beat No.8 Villanova 60-30 Sunday in front of a few thousand fans, most of them waiting to see No. 1 seed Maryland play Dartmouth in the second game.

After finishing tied for last at 3-11 in the Ivy League in 2007-08, not much was expected of Princeton this season. When the team reached New Year's Day 2009 with a 2-8 record, anyone who had been on the bandwagon had long since jumped off.

Expectations are always high at Penn, where the city is a college basketball hotbed and the fans expect an NCAA bid every year. It's fair to say that the 2008-09 Quakers did not come close to meeting those expectations.

Most thought Harvard was a year away from contending in the Ivy League, but a strong end to the non-conference schedule had some expecting Tommy Amaker's crew to be in the Ivy League race earlier than expected.